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Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

InDubioProRubio wrote: post #98

? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home. All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish. If you have a problem you need to solve, but don't know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the pro…

I like to go for a run or a bike ride.

On a walk, you can still carry and even use a phone, listen to a podcast or music, or have a conversation. When you're doing a workout, you might wear a watch, but otherwise it's a time when you can't really get distracted or interrupted by anything, you just move, observe, and think.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by hnuser123456 »

InDubioProRubio wrote: post #98

? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home. All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish. If you have a problem you need to solve, but don't know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the pro…

I think the intention is to not even try to identify solutions, or even identify problems. If you're opening this page on your computer or phone, presumably, you have nothing 100% critical pressing right now. Now take it to the extreme, and see if you can quiet your brain for a minute or so. Walking is not as "pure nothing" as sitting and letting your brain wander anywhere as long as it's not reminding you of obligation stress. You might even start to daydream a pleasant setting.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by frakt0x90 »

InDubioProRubio wrote: post #98

? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home. All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish. If you have a problem you need to solve, but don't know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the pro…

I agree but I need to find an alternative. I live in texas unfortunately and walking is miserable for 4 months out of the year. I should just move but can't currently.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by theultdev »

frakt0x90 wrote: post #104
InDubioProRubio wrote: post #98

? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home. All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish. If you have a problem you need to solve, but don't know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the pro…

I agree but I need to find an alternative. I live in texas unfortunately and walking is miserable for 4 months out of the year. I should just move but can't currently.

The weather is perfect right now, take advantage!

Also it's perfect most of our "winter", unlike many places where it snows / gets too cold.

No place other than California will have perfect weather all year, but then you live in California...

During the summer my wife and I run inside, or very early in the morning outside.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by malux85 »

baxtr wrote: post #83
npras1 wrote: post #63

Why do nothing? Because it gives you a chance to think about what you _really_ must be doing instead of what you were doing that led to wanting to calm the mind by doing nothing. And what were you doing that made the mind "empty calorie"-style busy? Usually getting lost in youtube videos or social media doomscrolling.

Love it! One minor improvement idea: get rid of the timer during the nothing phase. I looked at it all the time. You could show the timer once someone starts scrolling again.

Yeah this was me too, I found myself fixated on the timer, then I started computing factors of the numbers in my head, then I realised I just failed at doing nothing :<

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by alex_suzuki »

alex_suzuki wrote: post #59
lifthrasiir wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also quite surprised, and I took a bit of challenge to make it a single file that faithfully reproduces the exact behavior and embeds all dependencies including the web font, besides from Inter which is only used for toasts and barely distinguishable from Arial in this context. It weighs 3,123 bytes without the specifically subsetted font which takes additional 10,433 bytes. https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/…

You have improved nothing.

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